Post-Conflict Memorialization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Conflict Memorialization write by Olivette Otele. This book was released on 2021-03-08. Post-Conflict Memorialization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the world negotiates immense loss and questions of how to memorialize, the contributions in this volume evaluate the role of culture as a means to promote reconciliation, either between formerly warring parties, perpetrators and survivors, governments and communities, or within the self. Post-Conflict Memorialization: Missing Memorials, Absent Bodies reflects on a distinct aspect of mourning work: the possibility to move towards recovery, while in a period of grief, waiting, silence, or erasure. Drawing on ethnographic data and archival material from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Argentina, Palestine, Israel, Wales, Peru, Colombia, Hungary, Chile, Pakistan, and India, the authors analyze how memorialization and commemoration is practiced by communities who have experienced trauma and violence, while in the absence of memorials, mutual acknowledgement, and the bodies of the missing. This timely volume will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and scholars with an interest in memory studies, sociology, history, politics, conflict, and peace studies
Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict
Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict write by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen. This book was released on 2019-12-13. Memorials in the Aftermath of Armed Conflict available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through case studies from Europe and Russia, this volume analyses memorials as a means for the present to make claims on the past in the aftermath of armed conflict. The central contention is that memorials are not backward-looking, inert reminders of past events, but instead active triggers of personal and shared emotion, that are inescapably political, bound up with how societies reconstruct their present and future as they negotiate their way out of (and sometimes back into) conflict. A central aim of the book is to highlight and illustrate the cultural and ethical complexity of memorials, as focal points for a tension between the notion of memory as truth, and the practice of memory as negotiable. By adopting a relatively bounded temporal and spatial scope, the volume seeks to move beyond the established focus on national traditions, to reveal cultural commonalities and shared influences in the memorial forms and practices of individual regions and of particular conflicts.
Talking Stones
Talking Stones - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Talking Stones write by Elisabetta Viggiani. This book was released on 2014-08-01. Talking Stones available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service. Rather, memory is actually about the present moment, as Pierre Nora puts it: “Through the past, we venerate above all ourselves.” This book examines how collective memory and material culture are used to support present political and ideological needs in contemporary society. Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates how non-state, often proscribed, organizations have filled a societal vacuum in the creation of public memorials. In particular, these groups have sifted through the past to propose “official” collective narratives of national identification, historical legitimation, and moral justifications for violence.
From Memory to Action
From Memory to Action - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Memory to Action write by Ereshnee Naidu. This book was released on 2014. From Memory to Action available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Memorializing the Past
Memorializing the Past - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memorializing the Past write by Heidi Grunebaum. This book was released on 2017-07-28. Memorializing the Past available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work is a meditation on the shaping of time and its impact on living with and understanding atrocity in South Africa in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It is an examination of the ways that the institutionalization of memory has managed perceptions of time and transition, of events and happenings, of sense and emotion, of violence and recovery, of the past and the new. Through this process a public language of memory has been carved into collective modes of meaning. It is a language that seems deprived of the hopes, dreams, and possibilities for the promise of a just and redemptive future it once nurtured.Truth commissions are profoundly implicated in the social politics of memorialization. Memory, as a conceptual, historical, and experiential discourse about the past, relates to the ways in which cruelty is integrated into societal understandings, which include cognitive and philosophic frameworks and constructions of social meaning. The politics of historical truth, of memory and of justice, play out in unintended ways. There is not only the ongoing struggle for survivors of state terror, but also the ways that the everyday shapings of silences, the emptiness of reconciliation and the fracturing of hope remain embedded in political life.
